I had a bunch of letters that required my John Hancock and went through them right down the line.
After the third or fourth one, I realized had my name not been printed below the signature line, there’s no way in hell one could figure out what I had scrawled. I use my first and middle name initials though and these I think someone could make out though.
Almost completely illegible, and no 2 signatures of mine are the same. Partly due to writing fast, and partly due to not being able to hold a pen well.
The name I use for my signature has 13 letters, of which two of the three initials and one other letter are reasonably decipherable. (I don’t even bother any more to dot the i that is somewhere in there.)
My signature is a very distinctive squiggle that looks like it might start with an R (my name is Katherine)… it has a dot over it. I didn’t even bother changing my signature when I got married and changed my name–what’s the point? I even kind of say a sound in my head as I’m writing it: Kaaaahaaaahaaaaannnnnaa (which bears no resemblance to any name I’ve ever had)
I tried the illegible signature route, but I find I can’t be consistent with it. (Every signature looks different.) My signature is just my normal cursive, done just a bit faster so it’s not completely legible.
Mine recently got a bit more illegible on purpose. I’m planning on marrying and taking the name of a guy whose last name has two letters and three shapes in common with my current name (which is also my ex-husband’s). It’s become “scribbly” enough to look like my name-to-be, while still also being my name-that-is.
I said passable, because most of the time you can read it fairly well, but often enough I get lazy, leave out letters and it starts to look like “gigi”, which is not my name.
I try to keep my signature legible, for in my game it makes proving documents in court a little easier.
Unfortunately, the handwriting of my notes is usually very hard to read, and often baffles even myself.
A few months ago, a physician blew my mind by reading my handwiting upside down from the other side of the desk when I was having difficulty reading what I had written.
Mine is legible, especially when signing across my engineer stamp, or signing business letters. I want people to be able to read it. I also think neatness counts in my profession.
You can probably make out the first and last letters of my first name, and you could make a fair guess to the first letter of my last name, but that’s it.
Of course, since my first and last names only have seven letters total, that’s not terrible from a “percentage of legible letters” standpoint, but I defy anyone who doesn’t know me to figure out my name from my signature.